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WORM- EATING WARHtER. 



Viro^inia, southern Ohio and across to southern Michis'iH. 

 Casually it occurs in New England, and has been taken 

 several times in Massachusetts, and has even wandered as far 

 r.orth as Maine and New Brunswick Winters in eastern 

 Mexico, Central America, Columbia, Venezuela, and Trinadad, 

 The only migration record that I can give is the specimen 

 taken on Eleuthera at the Current Settlement, on April 20, 

 1897. 



Genus. BUFF-COLORED WARBLERS. Helmitheros. 



Bill large and stout, a little shorter than the head. wing.Sy 

 rather loug and pointed. Feet, rather large. 



Fig, 43. 



\Vorm-eatiiig Warbler. 



Dull colored Warblers with the top of the head conspicu- 

 ously marked with four black stripes enclosing three of buff. 

 Keel rather high, exceeding one half of the width of the ster- 

 Coracoids equal in length to the top of the keel. Sexes 



num 



similar. Tongue, thick and fleshy much like those of many 

 sparrows and without bristles at tip. One species, which is ra- 

 ther southern in distribution, thus barely reaching New Eng- 

 land. 



